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Monday, March 19, 2007

Concubining

Via Kottke.org comes this great example of verbing:

The verbing of English nouns continues unabated. A music producer being sentenced for attempted theft tells the court that he's got six children "on the way". The judge thinks he's marrying a women with 6 children but the producer replies, "No, I be concubining".